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was forging a global alliance through which "we are going to pursue the financiers of terrorism like they've never been …
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of escalation, de-escalation and strategicc ontrol. This research involves a synergic chain of various methods such as … the research. The results of the review of previous research on escalation of commitmentin the investment decision …-making context reveal that the literature on the escalation and de-escalationof organizational commitment is discrete and …
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Terrorism poses both direct and indirect threats to the operations of the firm. It represents a market imperfection … in the presence of unhindered exchange. Terrorism reflects the risk or actual encounter of violent acts, whose goal is to … engender fear, coercion, or intimidation. We investigate terrorism and its association with marketing strategy and operations …
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This dissertation contains three essays on risk aversion. In the first essay, we an-alyze comparative risk aversion in a new way, through a comparative statics problemin which, for a cost, agents can shift from an initial probability distribution towarda preferred distribution. The Ross...
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The threat of terrorism against the United States has been a primary concern of public policy makers, particularly … simulation model that captures the impacts of agricultural terrorism (agroterrorism) on the economic performance of various … financial uncertainty brought forth by terrorism can decrease consumer confidence, increase interest rates, increase credit …
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Protecting against terrorist attacks requires making decisions in a world in which attack probabilities are largely unknown. The potential for very large losses encourages a conservative perspective, in particular toward decisions that are robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance...
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The economic repercussions of September 11th are unique in that never before have economists needed to forecast and examine the impact of an event of such magnitude. This paper explains many of the economic effects of September l Ith, from the initial aftermath to recent developments. These...
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This dissertation consists of three largely independent essays. The first finds a significant correlation between the price of crude oil and significant terrorist attacks by groups of Middle Eastern origin against Western nations. In particular, such terrorist attacks are considerably more...
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terrorism. Chapter 2 takes the opposite view, using highpoweredstatistics to evaluate a single case. At question is the tool in …
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Providing a defensible basis for allocating resources for critical infrastructure and key resource protection is an important and challenging problem. Investments can be made in countermeasures that improve the security and hardness of a potential target exposed to a security hazard, deterrence...
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